Friday, August 19, 2016

Looking at Sanity in the Rearview Mirror

It's been a nutty week. Collin had a follow up appointment with the orthopedic surgeon, and was discharged (thankfully), barring any future issues with his arthritis. He finished physical therapy with flying colors. As for me, I'm embarrassed to admit that I flunked PT.

Now, Collin is preparing for a new job--one he can do at home while finishing his degree online and setting up an audiobook business. The new job is with a call center, but given everything he's had to do to get it, one would think he's being cleared for the CIA! The twenty-four hour deadline for the drug test is something I can understand. They want to be sure the applicants don't clear drugs from their bodies just long enough to get the job. I also get the background check. They're shipping their employees CPUs on the company's dime. That can't be cheap. But he also has to have someone who's not a blood relative examine documents like his ID, birth certificate, etc. and fill out a form, also to be returned to them within twenty-four hours. Really?Our friend Carolyn is serving as the unrelated examiner. Collin's meeting her this morning so that can be taken care of--his birth certificate, like all of our important documents, is in our safe deposit box. I have to wait here at home because the new computer monitor is being delivered today--we have two all-in-one computers, but they, it seems, are incompatible with the company's CPUs. We also have to get a landline phone (we've been a strictly mobile phone household for over seven years).Fun. Not.But I do still have a few laughs to share this week. Anybody seen the latest Pokemon creation, Gumshoos? He does look strangely familiar....

And then there's Britain's new airship hybrid...whatever this thing is....

As a bus driver, I can understand why we have to go through the drug/alcohol testing, we also have randoms, where you are not told ahead of time, and they can make you go in and get tested right now. I'm very happy they do this, because in the past, I know that they did not and people who drove school buses WERE definitely taking drugs.Every place has their own criteria. I think it is good policy. I had to bring in my birth certificate to renew my driver's lic. this time. Not sure why, but whatever.Good luck to Collin on the new job!